Those old standards – as white as freshly fallen snow, as brown as chocolate – no longer apply in Colorado.

The snow that’s been falling there lately is a dark chocolate brown – thanks to desert dust blowing in from Arizona that got caught up in a storm system over the Rocky Mountains.

A free hospital clinic has been set up in Munich, Germany – for the broken-hearted.

It will have experts on hand to give emergency treatment and advice to the lovesick, mostly teens, who don’t know how to cope with having been dumped.

What would Noah have to say about this?

The Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem is using birth control to stop a baby boom among its giraffes.

Its most fertile female giraffe, Shavit, has been shot with a dart containing birth-control hormones that will prevent her from getting pregnant for at least a year.

A college student in Chattanooga, Tenn., thought he was justified when he honked his horn at cops in a patrol car who turned on their blue flashers to go through a red light, and then turned them off after they crossed the road.

The cops disagreed and gave him a ticket for violating the city’s noise ordinance.

When the student contested the ticket, the judge told him, “The horn blowing is not the real problem here. It’s that you were trying to correct the police and they didn’t need correcting.”

It takes a snake to catch one.

Two weeks after Bessy, a Burmese snake, escaped from an apartment in Rexburg, Idaho, she was located – thanks to a plumber’s snake.

Using the 100-foot-long drain-clearing device with a camera attached, plumber Kip Salas spotted Bessy hiding in the bathroom ceiling of the apartment below the one she had fled.

After animal-control officers lassoed her with a steel collar and dragged her out, the building’s landlord slapped her owner with an eviction notice.